Old Yorkshire : Dane's Dyke

[@yorkshirelad3332]

Can't believe I knew nothing about the history of Danes dyke, love that place used to go there as a child and hunt the rock pools. Always assumed it was all natural

[@victoriaprice8536]

Just love this place so much, my childhood, my adult hood and my children’s hood, we all love it. Beautiful 💕

[@hippygoat75]

Very informative video, thanks a lot 😊

[@thehodge2837]

Who the heck gave a thumbs down to this facinating video!!???

[@astronomenov99]

I've actually walked (and mountain biked) the whole length of Danes Dyke. It's an interesting bit of 'wild country' hidden between the fields. Once you cross the road from the Southern end, the undergrowth gets thicker and the noise of traffic and people gets dimmer. Nature takes over.

[@davidstaples3478]

These video's are brilliant, and in that wonderful Hull accent =👌.

[@mailtolesleymc]

..fantastic video again ,still got some more left to watch ..learning alot about our area , ...my interest in the dark ages and our local people who were part of it always fascinates me , ..

[@hullhistorynerd]

It's a fascination for me, too! I will eventually be doing more ancient stuff in my videos, I've got one planned on Rudston and it's standing stone and later Roman villas, for instance.

[@msgretrogamer]

Brilliant video. I remember visiting Dane's Dyke with primary school.

[@robmainprize]

Great videos thanks - I've watched several now and fascinating to know more of the history of East Yorkshire. There would probably have been small settlements all over the place - I found flint implements & pieces of pottery to the west of Danes Dyke, north of Flamborough Road when I was a young lad.

[@hullhistorynerd]

I do have some more Old Yorkshire videos planned for later this year, I quite enjoy looking a bit further back than the usual industrial stuff from time to time! One episode I've had on the back burner for a while is the history of Rudston and its monolith and Roman ruins, and another on the lost town of Ravenser Odd, on Spurn Point!

[@misskittysmith]

Beautiful cinematography! Good film x

[@hullhistorynerd]

Thankyou! It was a beautiful place though, so I can only take so much credit :)

[@merlin6955]

Many thanks for another fascinating historical trip down memory lane. I'm hoping you may produce an episode on the the lost East Yorkshire villages of yesteryear that now lay miles out to sea thanks to shifting sands and coastal errosion.

[@hullhistorynerd]

Funnily enough I have been researching an episode on the port town of Ravenser Odd, a medieval port built on the shifting sandbanks of Spurn Point and whose way of bringing trade to their town was...ah... innovative. The town disappeared into the sea hundreds of years ago!

[@merlin6955]

@@hullhistorynerd Wonderful news, really appreciate your series being born in Cottingham, lived in Anlaby, Swanland & Willerby. Looking forward to many more - stay well!

[@peterfreeman6677]

He'll need a good pair of wellies if he's going out that far :)

[@chrismccartney8668]

Superb...

[@JohnHopkin]

Fascinating stuff. Thanks, as always!

[@hullhistorynerd]

You're more than welcome :)

[@Kelopio]

Great video, I never knew the place had so much history behind it.

[@hullhistorynerd]

I know, it's finding places like this that drove me to make these videos in the first place; it's amazing how much history we walk or drive straight past without even realising it!

[@scotexscarrier8461]

@@hullhistorynerd i was thinking that myself watching another of your videos, the old rail tracks running thru the cobbled streets of the old town, i bet 100s of thousands of people have walked over them and never gave it a second thought why there even there or what they where used for me included but now i do thanks to your great history lessons of Hull

[@jamesjames1227]

I’m local lad and love your videos I was there yesterday with my welly’s on where you are stud on the beach there has been some bad land slides now but also there is hole other side with loads of earth works it’s hard to see on google earth till you walk up there and the scale of it is so amazing I also had my welly’s on and was in the little beck that flows throw there has been lands slides there to and you can see exactly what you are saying about the crushed stones it’s like the banks been cut out and now you can see the time line of history but the stream it self is so interesting as at some points it’s just solid piece of chalk and stone but the Size of the other stones sat around like they made maybe dams for bathing in or fishing it’s so interesting Thankyou so much ..🙂...P.s I am really sorry about my spelling and my use of words if it’s hard to make sense of my wrighting I am really sorry 😐 I just struggle with special needs sorry and Thankyou for great video but definitely please get you welly’s on make another too and have a explore to the other side 🙂

[@hullhistorynerd]

Really glad you enjoyed the video and the site, it really is a lovely place to explore, and to know the history behind it just adds something to the experience :)

[@patriciabracken7546]

Thank you for going back in time to explain some of it's beginnings.
I love Yorkshire
Gods own county.
💚💙💜💛💛💟💓😹💟💕💕💝👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@triestodrum2215]

Very good

[@mayaturnnow9110]

"The Gypsies of the Danes' Dike: A Story of Hedge-Side Life in England, in the Year 1855" brought me here.

[@joanwick5628]

Love watching your videos. You put information across so well!

[@hullhistorynerd]

Thankyou for your kind words, and I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@dereksavory7012]

interesting video. i visited once and was shown around by local author and all round nice guy paul sinclair.

[@johnsowerby7182]

One interesting theory is that wandering tribes of humans on Doggerland would have been able to see the white chalk cliffs at Flamborough for a considerable distance. The Southern end of Danes Dyke would have been the way for those wanderers to get up onto the top of the cliffs, and from there, they are on top of the Woods, and could head further inland

[@oo-ww2qy]

omg yur bringing all my childhood memories bk

[@williamrobinson7435]

Enjoyed this v much. Thanks!

[@katiewise8779]

Absolutely love these videos! Just discovered them and watched the lot this weekend- lockdown heaven 💜 Hope you don’t mind me saying but I’d absolutely love to see some history on our parks, there’s just so much history in them and I’m certain I don’t know even a little bit compared to HHN 💜 Thank you for creating these videos, they’re brilliant!

[@hullhistorynerd]

Funnily enough I've got plans to cover the city's parks in future episodes! Really glad you've enjoyed the videos, really looking forward to getting some more made when it's safe for me to come out again!

[@katiewise8779]

Hull History Nerd that’s such good news! Thank you for the reply, stay safe! And really looking forward to your future videos 🤞

[@mci6830]

Great place. I have visited on perfect sunny days and during torrential rain.

[@hullhistorynerd]

It really is, such a beautiful walk!

[@EllieMaes-Grandad]

A village on Flamborough Head? The man hours to build that earthwork would have been enormous, at a time when subsistence farming was the rule. The organisation of the building, planning, surveying, etc., would have been quite something. Collection of the labour, housing, feeding, directing all involved, bespeaks a serious level of population control.
You've only scratched the surface! More please.

[@PibrochPonder]

They are not that hard to knock up.

[@EllieMaes-Grandad]

@@PibrochPonder Yes, heaping-up earth is straightforward - organising it less so . . .

[@PibrochPonder]

@@EllieMaes-Grandad it’s not hard. People had a lot of time on their hands back in the day. Labour was plentiful. Building stuff like this was not that hard. Come in it’s not like it’s Stonehenge is it?

[@EllieMaes-Grandad]

@@PibrochPonder I would dispute the assertion that "People had a lot of time on their hands back in the day" - it was a time of subsistence farming.
However, I look forward to reading your erudite exposition of just how easy it was, or perhaps wasn't . . .

[@PibrochPonder]

@@EllieMaes-Grandad just talk to experimental archaeologists. Labour was plentiful it was the material that were value. Anything that needs lots of time was not as much of an issue as we would think now.

[@kakkacarmenelectra7229]

I imagine the bronze aged Yorkshire folk were like your typical Yorkshire folk, equally happy and miserable

[@stevewalker2028]

Interesting, thank you. I would've appreciated a sketch or artist's impression of how the dyke would've looked in it's heyday. Were the trees present, for example, or just bare, steep slopes?

[@hullhistorynerd]

I honestly have no idea, I would imagine that would have kept it clear, though, in order to minimise cover for any invaders. I know that it was customary with later fortifications to cut back woodlands so that nobody could get too close without being seen.

[@carolinewhite6010]

Been here many a time. We used to have a great Aunt who lived in one of the small houses before you turn down the lane to Danes Dyke beach.. I always remember she had an outside loo out the back and I disliked very much using it back in the 70's / 80's !

[@brianlutkin2085]

Just watched the bloopers 2 video. That piece where you where near Cottingham railway station, I walked the same path yesterday the 18th February 2021.

[@chrismccartney8668]

So U could call it Real Yorkshire !!
Nearest I have is Bodicea or thought to be Bodiceas earthworks at Amesbury Banks in Epping Forest outside London…

[@philgreen815]

It's hard to believe that there would be enough people to complete the digging on such a scale ? And must have taken many years to complete ? This also tells us there must have been something worth protecting from marauders or whoever was attacking the area. I wonder if there is any evidence of settlements in Flamborough from that period ?

[@hullhistorynerd]

Indeed, there is evidence of habitation on the Head from that period, it would have been a great defensive spot - hard to reach from the water, and facing the ditch and bank would have been daunting. You'd be surprised at how much earthwork can be achieved with relatively small numbers in a limited amount of time; it was, basically, just digging out a ditch and piling the earth in a big mound, there was no complex architecture or bricklaying or stonemasonry happening. With enough hands, it would have certainly taken a while, but it's not inconceivable.

[@HighlandMike325]

Superb

[@slw0599]

Another Great vid Mr nerd...I was in cottingham station only the other day and noticed map/route of the stations the trains went to before ending at Scarborough but noticed some now closed/defunct stations....it got me thinking would the hull history nerd be interested? ......

[@hullhistorynerd]

Already done, though not worth so much focus on the disused stations - because they're still on a working railway they're hard to access. The Hull and Selby Railway Part 2: the Bridlington Branch is the video you're looking for!

[@brianlutkin2085]

Sorry about the blue bells. I did post a comment a bit earlier than this but it appears not to show itself.

[@jackreacher5667]

You wonder what the people were like 3000 years ago, the general assumption is 25 years for a generation , (perhaps less as life expectancy was shorter in those days would mean 120 generations ago) so they were just like you and me in many respects, they had intelligence and where quite capable of many of the dictates of a modern society and where more than capable of logical reasoning.
For a undertaking of this size would mean a communal effort perhaps over many years so that would suggest Defence or Religion, turning this around from a different angle ,could mean the "Dyke" was a boundary to separate the area for the worship of some Sea Deity and this was holy ground so to speak..
Just a Thought.

[@hullhistorynerd]

Worth noting that the figures given for average life expectancy in those days is heavily skewed by high infant mortality; plenty of bronze age and early stone age people lived into their 30s and 40s, and some even beyond that. And in terms of how similar humans were to people today, 3000 years ago is peanuts; 5000 years ago the residents of the Indus Valley civilisation had cities with structured, planned layouts and functional sewage systems, which suggests administration, organisation and large scale government.

[@jackreacher5667]

@@hullhistorynerd Hi, When I was talking of Generational ages I was talking of today's general acceptance of what constitutes "a generation" Life was shorter and people married/had children a lot younger than in today's society so it might be more than 120 generations ago but it's a fair average. It is generally accepted that from birth to having a child was around 25 years but of course it's not a exact science.
People of today's age seem to have a misconception that the actual intelligence and reasoning capabilities was a lot less in our ancestors which is not the case, had they the know how, time, money,resources they would have been quite capable of putting a man on the moon.
There is so much we don't know about the mentality of the people from that time, and of course fads, fashions, and belief changed over time.

[@brianlutkin2085]

Blue bells

[@jonesyacdc]

It would be better if you went into all the paranormal shit that happens there.❤

[@hullhistorynerd]

I'm afraid I'm not a believer, so it wouldn't be a very long video!

[@jonesyacdc]

@@hullhistorynerd that's what's wrong with established history. Research, Paul Sinclair. You hide away from reality because you can't explain it.

[@hullhistorynerd]

@@jonesyacdc No, I just don't believe in it. I spent years in my youth trying to prove that there was a real, supernatural side to the world, and ended up finding nothing that didn't have other, more reasonable and more parsimonious explanations. Do weird things happen? Yep. Are they ghosts? Probably not.